Podcasts by Caught by Surprise

Gui Carvalhal - Transforming the Channel. A romantic and possible true story. from 2021-07-22T17:15:16

In this Ted Talk I share one of the most impactful experiences I had in my career, from the day I had to take a call to hear about my "romantic" vision to "Win Hearts & Minds", "Sell It Righ...

James Nicholson - FreshBooks and the Microsoft Partnership from 2021-06-23T11:00

FreshBooks is a Canadian ISV helping businesses to ge...

Nick Heddy - Getting to know Pax8, a Microsoft Indirect Provider. from 2021-03-10T16:00

“Expect what I call 'PDM as a Service for unmanaged Partners'. This is what Pax8 is providing." - Nick Heddy - C...

Dina Pugliese - Microsoft Teams spotlighted at Breakfast Television by Dina Pugliese on behalf of Rogers for Business. from 2021-02-11T21:00

This video was showcased on Citytv Breakfast Television a few times, giving the audience a real life experience how Microsoft Teams integrates seamless on the background with other technologies ...

Stephen Tanaka & Gui Carvalhal - Special episode talking about CDW for its BTEX conference. from 2020-11-02T15:00

In this interview, Stephen and Gui share the stage to talk about CDW super powers and what they have for Sales and Services practices to represent Microsoft for Customers of any size across Cana...

Marc-André Fontaine - Sherweb is empowering Canadian MSPs to be their best in Sales and Marketing from 2020-10-07T14:00

"Sherweb is coming from being a Managed Services Provider. We are good on serving End Customers through our Partner ecosystem." - Listen

Jean-Philippe Couture – Getting to know ITI and how it evolved from Informatique ProContact. from 2020-09-10T03:00

“We leverage the Microsoft Partner ecosystem to provide a complete set of solution to our Customers, providing value across the Microsoft portfolio.” - Listen

Gui Carvalhal - How Microsoft Scale Partners performed in the 2020 Microsoft IMPACT Awards from 2020-07-23T14:00

“A big Thank You to all Scale Partners. I could not be more proud to this channel. This Channel is showing how we can be impactful in Enterprise, Corporate Accounts and SMB.” - Listen

Heather Stephenson - July 21-22 is Microsoft Inspire 2020, with special moments for Canada from 2020-07-07T11:00

“With Microsoft Inspire going digital and free, in one week of registration we already have twice of those attending last year.” - Listen

Gaelan Love - Diversity & Inclusion - PRIDE and why June is not the only month for us to be together from 2020-06-30T14:00

“There is no reason to ask someone else to explain their culture to you. You should try to immerse yourself in that culture and come up to them and talk about it.” - Listen

Tony Colucci – Kilobytes accelerates digital transformation for its customers using Azure and Teams from 2020-06-23T10:00

“40% of our clients were still in the midst of making the transition to Cloud. We are upwards now to about 83%.” - T...

Jenica Mckenzie - Diversity & Inclusion - Blacks at Microsoft (BAM) and how you can become an ally from 2020-06-16T06:00

“People forget about the Inclusion part, which is actually creating a space for people to be comfortable.” - Jenica ...

Jay Goldman - An ISV that moved to Microsoft Cloud platform and into the Microsoft Partnership from 2020-06-09T14:00

“We moved away from GSuite, Slack, Zoom and AWS into Microsoft Cloud… We wanted to align our environment to what our Customers use” - Listen

John Zarei - What is IAMCP and why every Microsoft Partner should be a member? from 2020-06-02T14:00

“IAMCP is a non for-profit organization, we are here to make the Microsoft Partner community better.” - John Zarei Listen

David Latulippe - ITCloud.ca offers, onboarding process and simplicity to make everything personal from 2020-05-26T14:00

“We wanna be the IT Department of our Partners… Our Partners know they can rely on our technical staff.” - David Lat...

Trish O'Keeffe - The importance of a Company to support, enable and motivate its people from 2020-05-19T14:00

“John [Insight’s General Manager] was very clear from the beginning that an eight hours day doesn’t have to be consecutive hours“ - Listen

Michael Contento - My Blue Umbrella explains in detail WORKanyPLACE three pillars solution from 2020-05-12T14:00

“When we talk to our customers we rate them as Survive mode, Stabilize mode, or Strive mode. That gives us a very specific dialogue with them.” - Listen

Darrell Angai - LinkedIn tools for Social Selling and Remote Learning from 2020-05-05T13:00

“Forbes recently released an article where they listed LinkedIn Sales Navigator is one of the essential tools during social distance.” - Listen

Kevin Belyea - Meet Spartan Systems, a Microsoft Canada Partner from the Atlantic region from 2020-04-28T14:00

“We are going to see a lot of employees asking their employer whether they can work from home two or three days a week.” - Listen

SPECIAL Kevin Peesker - Learnings, visions and fun moments in this 20 minutes special episode from 2020-04-16T17:00

“Right now it is a real three hours, three days, three months kind of mindset. A real compact component and then the relentless prioritization within that of what needs to be executed.” - Listen

Jason Thompson - Advices about Microsoft Modern Workplace and Microsoft Teams from 2020-04-14T16:00

“End user adoption really starts from understanding individuals and how they like to work.” - Jason Thompson, CPA Listen

Kimberly Godon - SYNNEX programs and offers in full detail, for Microsoft Cloud Partners from 2020-04-10T15:00

“We started our own Digital Transformation internally from a Marketing perspective in order to identify the best way to help our Partners.” - Listen

Diana Hakki & Mo Wahab - Microsoft Training Days and other advices from Modern Workplace Specialists from 2020-04-07T15:00

"Don’t sit in the silence, because usually when we sit in the office there is always the background noise with people talking.” - Listen

Greg Henson - Henson Group free offers are helping Customers and Partners to embrace Microsoft Cloud from 2020-04-02T15:00

“We are the number one Azure CSP reseller in the US, soon to be Canada… We are Azure Go-Fast Partner in Canada, which gives us access to more funding and acceleration to help Customers migrate i...

Jared Bernatt - The Microsoft Modern Workplace solutions and offers during COVID-19 from 2020-03-31T15:00

“Microsoft Teams is so much more than a chat platform, you have video conferencing, document editing, sharing and collaboration capabilities, phone systems, and more!” - Listen

Arash Heidari - How Ingram Micro is helping ISVs to build or move their applications to Azure from 2020-03-28T15:00

“Flight Academy is designed to enable ISVs to leverage Azure to build their products and also help them grow their business.” - Listen

Welcome to Caught By Surprise from 2020-03-27T15:00